Travel Speed

Place these character's in order from slowest to fastest in terms of travel speed.

Quasar
Silver Surfer
Superman
Gladiator
Thor
Nova Prime
GL Hal
Flash
Galactus
Adam Warlock
Wonder Woman
J'onn J'onnz
Orion

Does Galactalusalus' teleporting count?

Originally posted by Sr J-Bieb
Does Galactalusalus' teleporting count?

Nah just his flight speed

Difficult list mmm

GL > Superman, in terms of straight up travel speed.

Orion doesn't really have travel feats that I know of, since he would usually go by boom tube.

Is this basically a race across the universe thing, and assuming Flash could do that?

Originally posted by Cogito
Difficult list mmm

GL > Superman, in terms of straight up travel speed.

Orion doesn't really have travel feats that I know of, since he would usually go by boom tube.

Is this basically a race across the universe thing, and assuming Flash could do that?

Yeah a race from one far flung destination to the other. I personally think that Quasar may be the fastest, but that's just me.

Originally posted by Stoic
Place these character's in order from slowest to fastest in terms of travel speed.

Quasar
Silver Surfer
Superman
Gladiator
Thor
Nova Prime
GL Hal
Flash
Galactus
Adam Warlock
Wonder Woman
J'onn J'onnz
Orion

Travel speed through space...all of them are equal. There is nothing to hold you back in space which allows some of the not so fastest beings to go FTL (Rogue, Ironman, Super Skrull,Magneto, Vulcan)

Outside of space flight, in a gravitational environment, I don't know who can beat who. I would put Surfer above all of them based off of his speed fts on Earth with Nova being a runner up...this is minus Flash.

Check out Simonson's Orion run. He has some travel feats there.

Probably Surfer.

Nova has crossed lightyears in seconds though. So he's definitely several millions of times faster than light.

Based on narrator hyperbole, I think Gladiator has the best recorded feat at something like 100x the speed of light (or maybe 1000...it was ridiculous). But it's a highly questionable throwaway comment, and thus hard to corroborate.

The GLs maybe. They probably have the most feats of traversing the universe effortlessly in manageable timeframes.

Originally posted by carver9
Travel speed through space...all of them are equal. There is nothing to hold you back in space which allows some of the not so fastest beings to go FTL (Rogue, Ironman, Super Skrull,Magneto, Vulcan)

Outside of space flight, in a gravitational environment, I don't know who can beat who. I would put Surfer above all of them based off of his speed fts on Earth with Nova being a runner up...this is minus Flash.

That first paragraph is a dangerous application of real-world physics to comic books. In practice, we see differences between these characters in travel speed even if it doesn't make perfect sense.

Originally posted by carver9
Travel speed through space...all of them are equal. There is nothing to hold you back in space which allows some of the not so fastest beings to go FTL (Rogue, Ironman, Super Skrull,Magneto, Vulcan)

Outside of space flight, in a gravitational environment, I don't know who can beat who. I would put Surfer above all of them based off of his speed fts on Earth with Nova being a runner up...this is minus Flash.

Originally posted by CosmicComet
Probably Surfer.

Nova has crossed lightyears in seconds though. So he's definitely several millions of times faster than light.

What about Gladiator's crazy speed feats?

Where would you guys put Quasar on earth travelling?

Originally posted by Stoic
What about Gladiator's crazy speed feats?

The 100x lightspeed thing is the best I'm aware of?

Nova has crossed lightyears in seconds. That's literally several million x lightspeed.

I think I specifically found one instance to be around ~12.9 million x speed of light.

Originally posted by Parmaniac
I can't recall Magneto or Rogue ever travelling in space.

I think it happened during the time he was traveling back and forth from his fortress in space and it was stated he was traveling 99% the speed of light.

Rogue did it when partnering up with Surfer. She also did it when Ms. Marvel punched her to the moon.

@Digi, it has been reference on multiple of occasions in a comic that space = speed.

Surfer traveled either 500 light years, or 500 thousand light years in seconds (forget which one)

Originally posted by Parmaniac
Where would you guys put Quasar on earth travelling?

Well when She (forget her modern name) was searching for a mate, Quasar was seen passing guys like Hyperion as if they were moving in slow motion. I think it was Hyperion at least. Gotta check on it to be certain.

As far as a Quote for speed, Gladiator has all of them beat. In regard to distance vs Time, Surfer has all of them beat. It depends on how you look at it. Writers don't think about how fast a person is going when they write stuff...they do it because of the plot of the story...the character needs to be at this spot at a certain time. What we see as a speed ft of going trillions of times the speed of light, the writer probably looked at it as a light speed ft. Quotes are a lot better imo.

Carver, crossing one lightyear in a second (which surfer did far more) is >>>>>>>> 100x lightspeed. Also, not all writers are stupid. Some intend for their characters to be that fast.

Originally posted by carver9
As far as a Quote for speed, Gladiator has all of them beat. In regard to distance vs Time, Surfer has all of them beat. It depends on how you look at it. Writers don't think about how fast a person is going when they write stuff...they do it because of the plot of the story...the character needs to be at this spot at a certain time. What we see as a speed ft of going trillions of times the speed of light, the writer probably looked at it as a light speed ft. Quotes are a lot better imo.

I know we all like to assume writers are stupid, but for some thing as simple as distance over time, I don't buy it. That's just simple f*cking arithmetic.

If Gladiator travels some distance in a minute and he's 100x faster than light, then obviously it will take light 100 minutes to cross the same distance.

And any idiot knows that 100 minutes is far less than 1 year.

Multiple lightyears in seconds > (and so forth) 100x lightspeed.

Quasar can quantum jump... Thus teleporting....
Surfer can enter hyperspace... A realm that allows him to travel faster than the speed of light...
Nova can open wormholes to fly across space.
Thor can teleport...

So really their speed feats may not be all that impressive since off panel Rey could be doing other stuff or maybe even on panel...

Superman and gladiator types however have nothing other than speed.... So...